Is this the way Windows Update is supposed to work?

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I was using our new laptop a few hours ago & I found it to be very slow &
sluggish & then I noticed that it appeared to be downloading something & I
was correct - they were Windows Updates. Once it finished, after about an
hour, (our connection speed is on 28kbs), up pops a window telling me that
new updates have been downloaded & asked if I wished to install them. This
seems a little backward way of doing things since if I said no apparently
all that had been downloaded would apparently be just thrown away. Is this
the way things are supposed to work? Why can't I be shown what the
downloads are for before I say yes?
 
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I was using our new laptop a few hours ago & I found it to be very
slow & sluggish & then I noticed that it appeared to be downloading
something & I was correct - they were Windows Updates. Once it
finished, after about an hour, (our connection speed is on 28kbs),
up pops a window telling me that new updates have been downloaded &
asked if I wished to install them. This seems a little backward way
of doing things since if I said no apparently all that had been
downloaded would apparently be just thrown away. Is this the way
things are supposed to work? Why can't I be shown what the downloads
are for before I say yes?
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Configure it how you want it to behave: don't run, prompt before
download, prompt after download, or download and install without
intervention.

System applet in Control Panel. Guess which tab it is.
 
Yes, these are legitimate updates, just had one today. You can click
on details and a window pop ups telling you what the patch does.

Good luck
 
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